Improved holder for tinman s shears



change its position.

UNITED STATES 4PATENT OEFicE.

ALVA WORDEN, OF YPSILANTI, MICHIGAN.`

IMPROVED HOLDER FOR TINMANS SHEARS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 27,018, dated January 31, 1860.

To all whom it may concern.:

Be it known that I, ALVA VORDEN, of the city of Ypsilanti, in Washtenaw county, and State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Machine for Holding Tinners Shears and Stakes, which I call a Shears and Stake Holder for Tinners Use;77 and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and op eration of said machine, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, viz:

Figure l represents a perspective view of the metallic ring or socket which is to be tted in the surface of the workmans bench. Fig. 2 represents a metallic circular plate carefully fitted into the ring,Fig. l,resting upon the ledge or projection B, and easily revolving within the said ring--view perspective. Fig. 3 represents a bolt with a strong dat head, H, sunk, in the center of Fig. 2, in the orifice ai, the bolt then passing down through the plate and bench, and terminating with a screw and levernut under the bench, and serving to keep the plate c firmly in its place in the ring, and to loosen the same when the workman desires to Fig. 4 represents a surface view of the plate, Fig. 2. Fig. 5 represents a surface lView of the plate and ring properly adjusted together.

The machine consists, first, of th'e rim or socket A, Fig. l, vand A, Fig. 5, sunk in the workmans bench, as seen in the model, and so made as firmly to hold the center plate, c', Fig. 2, or c, Fig. et, supporting the saine upon the ledge or projection B, Fig. 1, and allowing the plate easily to revolve in the said ring; second, the center plate, c', Fig. 2, or c, Fig. 4, in which are four holes, D E F G, and may be more or less, to receive the foot of the shears or stakes, and passing through the plate perpendicularly or obliquely, according as they are for shears or stakes, and also the bolt-hole fc, Fig. 2, t-his plateis made -with a flange to rest upon the ledge l, Fig. l; third, the center bolt, Fig. 3, which has a strong dat head, H, sunk in the socket w, Fig. 2, and which bolt passes through the plate and down through the bench, terminating with a screw, upon wliicli,under the bench, is a `lever-nut, N, Fig. 3, which serves to tighten down and hold the plate when in use, and loosen the same when its position is to be changed by the workman.

rIo use the machine, sink the ring, Fig. l, in the bench, as seen in the model. The plate, Fig. 2, is then placed in the ring, Fig. l, and made fast in its place by the bolt, Fig. 3. The shears or stakes may then be placed in such of the holes -D E F G as may suit them. The machine is then ready for use; and the workman may change the position of his shears or stakes as much or as little as he pleases without lifting them out of their place by slightly loosening the nut N, and by taking hold of the shears or stakes, turning the plate, Fig. 2, in which they stand to the point desired.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The circular revolving perforated metallic or other plate, C', Fig. 2, so adjusted in the circular metallic or other ring, A', Fig. 1, that the shears and stakes of the tinner may be placed in the holes D E F G, Figs. 2, 3, or 4,

so that by the rotary motion of the plate C',

Fig. 2, which is held in place by the bolt, Fig. 3, the workman may, at pleasure, change the position of his shears and stakes without removing or lifting them from their places, and the use of such a combination as a holder or stand for tinners7 shears or stakes.

ALVA W'ORDEN.

In presence of- D. B. GREENE, IRA L. Davis. 

